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  GALILEO ACADEMY Weekly Bulletin March 9 – 13, 2020  WORDS OF THE WEEK: FRIDAY THE 13th (MARCH 13th 2020)   Friday the 13th is considered an unlucky day in Western superstition. It occurs when the 13th day of the month in the Gregorian calendar falls on a Friday, which happens at least once every year but can occur up

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GALILEO ACADEMY Weekly Bulletin March 2 – 6, 2020  WORDS OF THE WEEK: DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME   Mar 8, 2020 – Daylight Saving Time Starts When local standard time is about to reach Sunday, March 8, 2020, 2:00:00 am clocks are turned forward 1 hour to Sunday, March 8, 2020, 3:00:00 am local daylight time instead. Sunrise and sunset will

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GALILEO ACADEMY Weekly Bulletin FEBRUARY 24 – 28, 2020  WORDS OF THE WEEK: LEAP YEAR 2020  FEBRUARY 29, 2020   Simply put, a leap year is a year with an extra day—February 29—which is added nearly every four years to the calendar year. Adding an extra day every four years keeps our calendar aligned correctly with the astronomical seasons, since

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  GALILEO ACADEMY Weekly Bulletin FEBRUARY 17 – 21, 2020  WORDS OF THE WEEK: February 20isCherry Pie Day  It’s Cherry Pie Day. Cherry pie is America’s second most popular pie, behind only apple pie in popularity. However, in the month of February, it’s Number 1.  As a young boy, future president George Washington made the Cherry tree popular, with his

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GALILEO ACADEMY Weekly Bulletin FEBRUARY 10-14, 2020    WORDS OF THE WEEK: VALENTINE’S DAY ORD OF THE WEEK:  VALENTINE’S DAY FEBRUARY 14, 2019   Valentine’s Day, also called Saint Valentine’s Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is celebrated annually on February 14. Originating as a Western Christian feast day honoring one or two early saints named Valentinus, Valentine’s Day

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  GALILEO ACADEMY Weekly Bulletin JANUARY 27 – 31, 2020    WORD OF THE WEEK:  GROUNDHOG DAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2020   Groundhog Day (Pennsylvania German: Grund’sau dåk, Grundsaudaag, Grundsow Dawg, Murmeltiertag; Nova Scotia: Daks Day is a popular tradition celebrated in Canada and the United States on February 2nd. It derives from the Pennsylvania Dutch superstition that if a groundhog

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  GALILEO ACADEMY Weekly Bulletin JANUARY 13 – 17, 2020 WORDS OF THE WEEK:MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR, DAY JANUARY 20, 2020 Martin Luther King Jr. Day is an American federal holiday marking the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. It is observed on the third Monday of January each year. King’s birthday is January 15. The holiday is similar to

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GALILEO ACADEMY Weekly Bulletin JANUARY 6 – 10, 2020 WORDS OF THE WEEK: A NEW DECADE 2020 A decade is a period of 10 years. The word is derived (via French and Latin) from the Ancient Greek: δεκάς, romanized: dekas, which means a group of ten. Other words for spans of years also come from Latin: biennium (2 years), triennium

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GALILEO ACADEMY Weekly Bulletin DECEMBER 16 – 20, 2019 WORDS OF THE WEEK: December 15, 2019 BILL OF RIGHTS DAY Now, Therefore, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate December 15, 1941, as Bill of Rights Day.  And I call upon the officials of the Government, and upon the people of the United

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